Also, I was wondering, in all of robot anime, is there anyone other than Amuro who becomes an actual adult over the course of a series? I mean, both his appearance and personality changing completely and becoming all calm and settled down.

edit: duuuh, Gurren Lagann I guess. Anything other than that?

Isn't Kazumi from Gunbuster 30 by the end of the series?
Also, Setsuna is something like 23 during the 00 movie.

Did they add more Queadluun-Rea animations, or keep armor Klan from Z-2? Part of me wants to do an all angry girl gimmick run since there's enough candidates in this version. I ask mainly because the new YF-29 animations are slick as hell.

Wow, you weren't kidding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ5YTmlbWBo - is that a secret unit this time around or just an upgrade? Speaking of, is there any talk of secret units/characters? All I've heard is that so far it seems pretty lean.

It's actually pretty amazing how lame Amata/Mikono are, because the series has some pretty impressive stuff in the supporting cast relationships. Andy coming to terms with loving someone for who they are in spite of anime's tendency to play off male/male relationships for laughs or Yunoha coming to terms with Jin's death are both really good.

Amata/Zessica for life. gently caress you Mikono!!

Yeah she's a terrible character. Honestly Amata was pretty lousy in the series too but I do appreciate that SRW has him just constantly yelling in all his attacks.

I don't even know if she's worth hating, since she's just...it's like she's not even there.

She gets hated because she and Amata pretty much tank the series. Like the plot is stupid but that's par for the course for most animes, but I like to think most people watch this stuff for a. mechs and b. characters and it's a shame these two can completely deep six an entire series on their own. Like Kanos pointed out, there's some pretty okay stuff if you're willing to look into it (I kind of doubt many people really saw the MIX thing for what it tried to do but whatever) but it's tough to think about it when you got Amata getting horny over Mikono any time they glance at each other and he FLOATS OFF yelling MIKONO-SAN!!!!

Also yeah you are in for some probably pretty funny surprises if you don't know the EVOL plot.

Isn't Kazumi from Gunbuster 30 by the end of the series?
Also, Setsuna is something like 23 during the 00 movie.

Kazumi physically changed but her voice and personality didn't seem to change very much to me (but maybe I am misremembering). As for Setsuna, I only saw him a little bit but it seems to be the same thing.

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(I kind of doubt many people really saw the MIX thing for what it tried to do but whatever)

I guess you can add me to the list of people who have no idea what they were trying to do with her, other than make a vastly more boring version of Kaname. What's with her name? I looked at her encyclopedia entry hoping to learn but it didn't have a hint.

Also, it looks like the male and female characters in Evol were designed by different people.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2014 around 16:37

I guess you can add me to the list of people who have no idea what they were trying to do with her, other than make a vastly more boring version of Kaname. What's with her name? I looked at her encyclopedia entry hoping to learn but it didn't have a hint.

EVOL spoilers ahead. MIX hates men because of issues stemming from her father basically abandoning their family. Andy is initially attracted to her due to her having enormous anime breasts. She initially rejects him due to her issues, but through a surprisingly decent series of interactions for two side characters in an anime they grow close. MIX gets kidnapped by the bad dudes and taken to their planet, so the Aquarion dudes mount a rescue mission and find out that she's lost her memories and due to whatever the gently caress is wrong with Bad Guy Planet she's also turned into a guy. When Andy finds this out he has a brief moment of Gay Panic about "Oh god if she's a guy now and I'm still crushing what does that make me" before coming to terms with this and deciding that he loves MIX for who they are regardless of their gender. The two of them even combine and help Amata for the final battle with MIX still as a guy. The post-series "one month later" shot shows her having changed back into her female body over time, but it's really rather touching that they would have him decide "I'm going to love you for who you are" rather than "I'm going to find a way to restore your titties so I can go back to loving you".

Kagura and Zessica get more interaction so their hookup at the end doesn't appear to come totally out of left field.

Unless they toned down Zessica's big crush on Amata that's still totally awful. "I love this person for who he is" does not lead to "I love this person who looks my crush but is explicitly his opposite in every way" in anything but a lovely wrap-up.

I'm going to guess nobody cared about making EVOL work, which I can respect because man. EVOL.

Looks like it, except Kei from Orguss. When people see something that reminds them of the way the world used to be they seem to get headaches.

To expand on this:

When Kei first runs into the group, everyone at first comments that the Orguss looks familiar before they remember him. Kei, meanwhile, looks at the Aquarion from EVOL and is about to greet Apollo when he gets a headache. After that headache passes he doesn't recognize the Aquarion anymore.

Several people, like Char, appear to realize that there is something deeply wrong with the world as is, even if they don't remember specifics.

When Kei first runs into the group, everyone at first comments that the Orguss looks familiar before they remember him. Kei, meanwhile, looks at the Aquarion from EVOL and is about to greet Apollo when he gets a headache. After that headache passes he doesn't recognize the Aquarion anymore.

Several people, like Char, appear to realize that there is something deeply wrong with the world as is, even if they don't remember specifics.

Well that is rather depressing, wtf. Maybe all the missing series will re-appear and fix that in Z3.2 though i have heard amuro regains memories towards the end?

Man, a lot of pointless moeblobs (I think I am using that term right) have come and gone through SRW, but the female lead from Aquarion Evol seems to take the cake. She just looks completely hopeless as far as ever turning into anything at all.

Also, I was wondering, in all of robot anime, is there anyone other than Amuro who becomes an actual adult over the course of a series? I mean, both his appearance and personality changing completely and becoming all calm and settled down.

edit: duuuh, Gurren Lagann I guess. Anything other than that?

Hikaru from Macross sort of has this arc in my opinion. He starts off as a stunt pilot obsessed with a highschool girl, ends up losing lots of people and being in command and eventually sort of settling down with a far more reasonable woman. I'm not sure what his actual physical ages are supposed to be, but it is effectively the same sort of plot in my mind.

Well at least we have justification for Char going CCA on us, his memory's been screwed with and thus doesn't remember the Black History stuff from Z1 that was supposed to be keeping him from doing this kind of thing

EVOL spoilers ahead. MIX hates men because of issues stemming from her father basically abandoning their family. Andy is initially attracted to her due to her having enormous anime breasts. She initially rejects him due to her issues, but through a surprisingly decent series of interactions for two side characters in an anime they grow close. MIX gets kidnapped by the bad dudes and taken to their planet, so the Aquarion dudes mount a rescue mission and find out that she's lost her memories and due to whatever the gently caress is wrong with Bad Guy Planet she's also turned into a guy. When Andy finds this out he has a brief moment of Gay Panic about "Oh god if she's a guy now and I'm still crushing what does that make me" before coming to terms with this and deciding that he loves MIX for who they are regardless of their gender. The two of them even combine and help Amata for the final battle with MIX still as a guy. The post-series "one month later" shot shows her having changed back into her female body over time, but it's really rather touching that they would have him decide "I'm going to love you for who you are" rather than "I'm going to find a way to restore your titties so I can go back to loving you".

As for her name, Blame Anime.

Looks like it, except Kei from Orguss. When people see something that reminds them of the way the world used to be they seem to get headaches.

To add to the name thing She's named MIX so that when she turns into a guy they can call her MIXY instead. See, get it. Because X-Y.

Well at least we have justification for Char going CCA on us, his memory's been screwed with and thus doesn't remember the Black History stuff from Z1 that was supposed to be keeping him from doing this kind of thing

That isn't really what happens from what I understood. The CCA attack plays out in a very specific way. A way involving the explanation for when the Gundam SEED Destiny cast went and an attempt to create the Axis Shock artificially in order to break the ZONE singularity.

So am I correct that the DLC missions are accessible from the intermission menu? I found a menu that seems to list what DLC I have (guessing, can't really read it) and the stage it's accessible after? For example, the first seems to indicate I can do it after stage 4. Is that automatic or will I be able to choose it when I want?

So am I correct that the DLC missions are accessible from the intermission menu? I found a menu that seems to list what DLC I have (guessing, can't really read it) and the stage it's accessible after? For example, the first seems to indicate I can do it after stage 4. Is that automatic or will I be able to choose it when I want?

You can access them after unlocking them, but if you don't go to that menu they won't play out.

Given I don't speak Japanese, the only thing I got out of that trailer was 'oh, cool, Xine is still alive.'

Eva's plot is continuing, hints that Aquarion Classic returns, the FMP plot appears to be going on to the novels, SEED is apparently doing some kind of post-series plot, Unicorn is moving on to later episodes.

I'm still only like on like stage 18 or so, but I'm glad to hear this one turned out to be an entire full game. Z2.1 really left me worried.

I'm in the 30s and this is worlds ahead of both Z2 games to me. I also think people who think the animations are lazy are insane and probably need to look at the reanimated Z Gundam or Orguss before slapping themselves.

I'm in the 30s and this is worlds ahead of both Z2 games to me. I also think people who think the animations are lazy are insane and probably need to look at the reanimated Z Gundam or Orguss before slapping themselves.